ALEXANDRIA. Although no longer within the District of Columbia, yet this City is deserving of a passing notice on account of its venerable age and its attractions as a commercial town. It is on the southern bank of the Potomac, about six miles below Washington, and is accessible both by steamboats and omnibuses. Like its rival in commerce, Georgetown, it can look back upon the vicissitudes of over one hundred years. That it was early a place of some note, is shown by the fact, that five Colonial Governors met here by appointment in 1775, to take measures with General Braddoek respecting his expedition to the West, and the said expedition started from this place. But the reminiscences which the peo ple of Alexandria mostly cherish are those which associate their town with the domestic attachments and habits of General Washington, in whose let ters may be found a number of kindly allusions to his friends residing in this town. His friendly interest was manifested on various occasions, and especially so by bequeathing to the inhabitants a legacy of ill,000 for a free Public School. The stranger in Alexandria is still pointed to tho 126